Tag: commentary
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IN TIME
Odeon Glasgow Quay, 16.11.11 After a gap of 6 years since he wrote and directed Nicolas Cage in the average Lord Of War (2005), Andrew Niccol is back with In Time, a film in which he returns to the sci-fi world that he mined successfully for Gattaca (1997) and to a lesser extent in S1mone (2001). Set in the near future, In…
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MIDNIGHT IN PARIS
Cineworld Glasgow, 13.10.11 Midnight In Paris is Woody Allen’s 44th feature film, and already his most successful at the box office. This says a lot about inflation rates and cinema ticket prices, but also points to the popularity of Owen Wilson, in the lead role as Gil, and of the city of Paris, which must…
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TYRANNOSAUR
Cineworld Glasgow, 11.10.11 Debut feature director Paddy Considine and star Peter Mullen have both been at pains in press interviews for their new film Tyrannosaur to emphasise that it is not another British film of social realism, in the line of Ken Loach or Tony Richardson. One obvious reason for this is that such a label…
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CONTAGION
Cineworld Glasgow, 09.11.11 Steven Soderbergh has gathered another all-star cast for his latest multi dimensional drama, this time tracing the stories of several people all affected by the outbreak of a new virus that threatens to wipe out mankind. Where Traffic (2000) was about drugs and the effect on people’s lives in the real world, this is…
Iain Kelly 